thumbtacks, teleporting, and smooth boat motion

I just added a number of new monticello changesets to contributions  
section of the croquet distribution.
highlights include:

- thumbtack annotations ported over from Jasmine. You can now push  
pins into things, and assiciate a text annotation with the pin. To  
keep the world from getting cluttered, these thumbtack annoations are  
only visible through a filter portal. The "thumbtack annotations"  
portal filter can be found under the View menu in the simpledemo and  
sailing worlds. Meta-clicking on an annotatable object (like the  
boat, for instance) calls a popup menu that includes an option for  
adding a thumbtack annotation.

- more options for the way you move from one world to another. The  
dialog box you get after choosing the "Connect to Another World"  
option under the tools menu in the Sailing and Simpledemo worlds has  
options for 2-way portals and one way portals to connect the worlds.  
You can also "just appear" in the other world... this is something  
like teleporting. We really need some cool animation and sound effect  
for teleporting. ;-)

- the boat in the sailing world moves smoothly now. Previously we  
were fighting the camera that follows the avatar by updating the  
avatar's position when the camera was not expecting it. The results  
was some really nasty jerkiness of the boat and avatar. By moving the  
position updates of the boat (on which the avatar is riding) to be  
called when the boat is rendered, things are nice and smooth. Now we  
just need some sails and wind, and we can start running sailboat races.

Installation notes: for the thumbtack stuff, you will also need the  
mesh for the thumbtack. This can be downloaded by clicking on the  
"install updates" button, or by calling "do it" on
     Utilities updateFromServer.

Hey David,

Right now the easiest way is to use the Tools>>Import Object feature.  
Objects created this way will have a menu that can be triggered with a
blue-button click (right-click on Windows).

Hope this helps,
Liz

David Faught wrote:
> Cool!  Thanks for making this available.
>
> I have a question though.  How do I make an object "annotatable"?
>  

Hi Liz,

Actually I'm more interested in how to annotate the objects that
CCPainter creates, for example.  Is it that difficult to create them
myself?

On 9/19/06, Liz Wendland <[hidden email]> wrote: